Love #3. Any idea how big it will get?
Also 4 and 11 get my attention right away. UK hostaman will love most of these. But then he's like a 15 year old with hormones raging. He likes anything with ruffles.

Steve

#3 is called Hosta 'Mill's Stilbon'.
It's a medium to large, very fast growing Hosta 'Eos' seedling.

#5 and #9 ~I love upright, vase-shaped hosta that stand proud!
So, really, I like all of them you're showing!
Could we have the size expectations on each of them, please?

I agree with Steve, 'Mill's Stilbon' IS very lovely!

Just send me all of them...hostas are like potato chips..why stop at one?

I love pointy ones so number 1, 2, 9 really got my attention. Who's mommy and daddy on those????
PS, all look great.

#3 is a H. 'Eos' seedling (single mum).
All the others are H. 'Grand Slam' offspring.

Rob

I like 4 and 9. The're all really nice, though. (I'm like UK Hostaman, I like ruffles.)

bkay

I LOVE...5,8,9,10and 11..probably a good job there not on the market!....have you any intentions of putting these in production?....lol to what steve said about me!

All these cultivars are H. 'Grand Slam' OP seedlings, except for H. 'Mill's Stilbon', a H. 'Eos' seedling (in Greek mythology, Stilbon is one of Eos' children).

I'm planning to put a couple in TC.
Problem is to select which ones.
The ones pictured are all extremely good garden plants: above average growth rate, good substance, can take a fair amount of sun.
IMHO opinion, #1 (Hosta 'Mill's Trump Suit')is by far the best. It's quite difficult to catch its beauty in a picture. An attempt to describe it: a very tight clump, vase shaped, 16-17" high, with dark red petioles that show very well. The 9" long leaves are very bright medium green, very shuni on top and below. No chance you'll confuse it with another existing cultivar.

For the other ones, I'm hoping to get some feedback from you all. I you could pick just 1, which one would it be ?

If you want to see larger images, check out the link added.

To make matters worse, these are just the first ones we've potted up. We've already disposed of about 20 mature seedlings, but there still some 40 more to judge. Some will be used in the Hosta Mill breeding program, a few will be registered, the rest will spend their live in the Hosta Mill, only to be distributed as OS or given away as friendship plant.

Rob

Here is a link that might be useful: Hosta Mill Introductions

Rob,

#1 may be a valuable breeding plant, but it isn't anything I'd buy. First, there are a ton of hostas with red pets and green leaves. Secondly, unless I was potting this hosta in a pedestal pot, I wouldn't buy it anyway. Red pets simply do not show up in a garden bed. Doesn't matter how red the pets are or how shiny the green leaves. In a garden bed, it ends up looking like a green rippled hosta.

#3 however, has great plant shape, leaf shape and a great turquoise/blue color. Hopefully, it will hold that color.

#11 also has a unique greenish/gray color and excellent plant shape and leaf shapes as well.

I like #4's plant and leaf shape also. That's just my $.02

Oh, and you can send the culls to England c/o UKHostaman.

Steve

Very nice hostas. I like the blue one with the ruffles with an upright habit like Krossa Regal. Thanks for showing!
I also won an Ipod 2 (or so) because I was the 10,000th (only so few?) visitor on Image Shack, which I thought was a scam followed by transfer of spyware, so I left.
Bernd

I agree with Steve. #3 is a keeper for all the reasons he stated. I also like #2 for the elongated narrow ruffled leaves and pink pets. The others are all lovely, however they look like a lot of other hostas available today.